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My day without modern technology

by Philipp Trelenberg, year 11

Imagine all your modern technology, your smartphone, TV, the Internet,

computers would suddenly disappear for one day, what would you do?

I would wake up too late for school, because my alarm didn’t ring. Awake, I would

want to check my smartphone watch. But wait, my smartphone wouldn’t be there.

So I would go to the bathroom and check the clock there: 9 o’clock! Too late but

fortunately my school is only minutes away from home. At school I would explain

my lateness to my teachers but then, the day at school would be normal. The

only difference would be that I had to check my schedule in an analog way.

After school I would return home. I would start my CD-player instead of asking

Spotify and maybe play some drums. Subsequently I would start my homework

and instead of my smartphone I would use dictionnairies for looking up words.

This would take longer than normally.

In the evening I would meet with friends but could not send a Whatsapp

message like usually. I would call them on their landline. It’s good that we still

have such a tecnology in our house in 2018.

Resuming, a day without modern technology would be more difficult but easy to

manage with some more time. And I think at night I could sleep better and more

relaxed because I wouldn’t spend time on my smartphone directly befor going to

bed. Eventually I also would start to read a new old book.